Product management software comes in all shapes and sizes. Some tools help product managers with specific tasks, like planning or tracking, while others are all-in-one solutions. In this article, we have covered 6 tools preferred by managers.
UserVoice is used by mid-sized businesses and enterprises to manage product feedback. Product managers can choose to collect feedback from multiple sources and get actionable insights into user opinion.
The product management tool offers a personalised feedback portal, an in-app feedback widget, Zendesk connectivity, private and public feedback forms, status updates for users and team members, and advanced segmentation.
Besides feedback collection, UserVoice provides product managers with clear user signals, marketplace trends, and the ability to predict future adoption.
UserVoice offers quarterly and yearly plans with free trials and custom pricing for enterprise-level customers. The standard package is $699/month (billed yearly) and includes feedback from up to 200 unique users. You can use this plan to capture, share, and analyse feedback. The pro and premium plans are $899/month and $1349/month and include feedback from 1000 and 5000 users, respectively.
Aha! is a product management software known for its powerful product roadmap tool. The cloud-based software is most popular among mid-sized and enterprise-level businesses.
The road maps feature allows you to set the strategy, capture feedback from stakeholders and customers, rank ideas based on value and effort, prioritise impactful features, generate high-quality documentation, make business plans, and track progress.
The roadmaps tool is available for $59 per month, the idea management tool for $39 per month, and the developer tool for $9 per month. All plans come with a free trial. Aha also offers a free product manager notebook.
Coda is a document editor with a formless interface, features from popular office software, and connectivity to third-party apps via Coda Packs. The tool is used by small and mid-sized businesses for iterations and tracking objectives and results (OKRs).
Besides enabling text, data, and infographics in one place, Coda offers prioritisation, to-do lists, recurring tasks, multi-user collaboration and real-time communication, templates, graphics, revision, history, and application integration.
The pricing model of Coda includes both monthly and annual plans. You can also consider the tool if you’re looking for free project management software. The free plans offer real-time collaboration with unlimited editors and viewers. You can also build your own building blocks and automate them for free. The paid plans start at $10 per month with the annual plan.
Pendo is a popular product analysis tool used by small and mid-sized businesses. It provides product managers with all the features, including usage data, user paths, user sentiment, and CRM and third-party integration.
Pendo has plans for companies just starting and those looking to scale. They have a free package for businesses with up to 500 users/month. The yearly plan for companies with 2000 monthly users is $7000/year.
Product Plan is a cloud-based roadmap software that mid-sized and large businesses use to create custom roadmaps. The company offers unlimited roadmaps with all its plans.
The yearly pricing starts at $39/editor/month, and the plan includes unlimited viewers and prioritisation. The $69 plan allows you to standardise the style of your roadmaps, create teams, and have multiple admins. The enterprise plan includes idea capture and launch management.
ProductBoard is a cloud-based product management and road mapping tool popular among small and mid-sized businesses. The software offers all the features a product manager expects from such software, including prioritisation, feedback, idea validation, road maps, and integrations.
Product Board is offering free yearly access to their starter plan. It allows you to create one roadmap. The yearly plan is available for $20/user/month. It helps you to make roadmaps, define user roles, prioritise, monitor, and integrate tools. The $80/month Pro plan allows you to incorporate customer feedback and use advanced prioritisation.
Understanding your current and future needs will help you choose the most suitable product management tool. But you do not have to rely on guesswork – try the basic versions of multiple software before picking one.
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